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Taxonomy Archive: health surveillance
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health issues due to sea level rise impact communities in South Florida
The Florida Institute for Health Innovation released a report today on communities from Palm Beach to Key West with the greatest risk for adverse health effects of sea level rise and mapped zones most prone to environmental sea level rise impacts, described associated public health risks and identified the region’s socially, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Threatens Health: serious threats where you live and what to do about them | NRDC
Click on a state on the map for more information on climate health threats, actions being taken to prepare communities, and what you can do. Includes previous data for air pollution, extreme heat, infectious diesease, drought, flooding, and extreme weather.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Environmental Health Indicators: Climate Change
This webpage includes a template for collecting the 24 climate and health indicators the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) recommends, as well as detailed descriptions and instructions for how to calculate each one. These indicators are meant to measure current vulnerability to climate variability and change, as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Perfect Storm: Climate Change and Zika Virus Disease
If you were writing a popular novel designed to terrify, you could hardly come up with a better plot device than introducing Zika virus disease. A perfect storm of a vector-borne disease, its kaleidoscopic facets are staggering in number and touch on a multitude of aspects—lack of sanitation and rampant urbanization, reproductive ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Statement of Policy: Strengthening and Expanding Local Health Department Surveillance and Research Capacity to Examine the Effects of Climate Change on Existing and Emerging Vectors and Vector-Borne Diseases
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) urges the federal government to provide sufficient funds to maintain, strengthen, and expand the surveillance and research capacities necessary to track vector-borne diseases affected by climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Impacts of climate change on public health in India: future research directions
BACKGROUND: Climate change and associated increases in climate variability will likely further exacerbate global health disparities. More research is needed, particularly in developing countries, to accurately predict the anticipated impacts and inform effective interventions. OBJECTIVES: Building on the information presented at the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change is extending mosquito season in the D.C. region — bad news for Zika
As if climate change wasn’t already bad enough, we now have one more reason to change course. Summer heat is hanging around longer, the days are becoming more humid, and mosquito season is lengthening, which means an increased risk of vector-borne diseases like Zika.Baltimore tops the list of growing mosquito seasons, according to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Anthrax outbreak triggered by climate change kills boy in Arctic Circle
Seventy-two nomadic herders, including 41 children, were hospitalised in far north Russia after the region began experiencing abnormally high temperatures.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Zika Goes Viral in the U.S.
A new analysis by Climate Central highlights that the number of days hot and humid enough for mosquitoes to be active and biting has increased in many big US cities—and climate change will further increase those numbers, in most locations. In their analysis, the ten cities with the biggest increase in the length of the […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Study: Climate change can affect the spread of infectious diseases
A new study from Texas State University aimed to answer that question by finding the connection between climate change and viruses like Zika and West Nile. Dr. Yongmei Lu, a professor in the Department of Geography at Texas State, concluded the study just before Zika became a well-known world headline. However, it focuses on other ...